Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI) is pleased to announce Native American activist and Executive Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, Winona LaDuke, as speaker for its 2010 Commencement Ceremony on June 6th, 2010.

Commencement for BGI’s 2010 graduating class for the MBA in Sustainable Business and Certificates in Sustainable Business and Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship will be held Sunday, June 6th, at 4:00 pm at Seattle’s Convention Center, in conjunction with Green Festival, the largest sustainability conference in the Pacific Northwest.
 
Winona LaDuke is a long time activist who, in addition to directing the White Earth Land Recovery Project, is also Executive Director of Honor the Earth, a noted author, environmentalist, economist and was Vice Presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000 on the Green Party ticket. LaDuke was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2007.

BGI President, co-founder and former Fortune 100 consultant, Gifford Pinchot III commented: “Winona is a warm and caring human being.  In her previous visit to BGI as Change Agent in Residence, she electrified students and I am delighted that she is back again to deepen the relationship with BGI.”